For me a social media in a linux distro called blendos and because reddit sucks and is soo toxic man
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Same here, though I technically never used lemmy - I started on kbin (kbin.social) and finally ended up hosting a single user pyfedi/piefed instance (piefed.social)
never used kbin tbh i just game straight to lemmy
Found it mentioned as an alternative when Reddit announced their API changes.
yeah… it was literally all over Reddit. I also remember the lemmy vs. kbin discussions.
Same. Migrated to Lemmy with the API changes, haven’t looked back
Reddit.
Reddit.
When Reddit shut down 3rd party apps. I only used Joey for a single reason, it autohides post after scrolling past them very well, it was the only way reddit is tolerable is by only seeing a post once. Now I use Connect which has a similar autohide feature and I am enjoying Lemmy a lot more than i ever did reddit.
Joey was the best. I came here before Joey died, but the day it died for good I only went to Reddit once. I talked mad shit to a particularly horrible mod and got my account permanently banned. Haven’t looked back since.
I sure wish codesforliving would create a joey for lemmy. I’d pay for that again in a heartbeat. One of the best apps I ever had.
Quit using Reddit for like a year after the API changes, then used it again for like a week primarily to search for an alternative (… Reddit sadly still is best for searching information), used both for a while before I stopped using it again, this time primarily because it’s overrun by bots and the first party app is absolutely awful and I still heavily dislike their API decisions.
Only Lemmy now :)
I’m also a huge open source fan
And the brain drain on Reddit is real.
(… Reddit sadly still is best for searching information)
true tho bcs lemmy is small its hard searching stuff here
It’ll get better, Reddit just is over a decade ahead in posts so it obviously has much more.
reddit locking their api was the last straw for me. so i wanted to stand up a reddit clone to fill that hole for me and others.
surfin the githubs for federating platforms… lemmy was fugly, i started with kbin.
i ended up with an mbin instance so i could connect to mastodon as well as all the lemmy content/users.
During the api debacle I just looked on alternativeto.net and found lemmy. I didn’t want to switch at the time, so I just used both until Relay stopped working and then I just used lemmy.
I read about and liked the concept of the Fediverse, opened a few accounts across various platforms, quickly got bored with the small userbase. Then reddit did their thing with the API, I wanted to stop using it entirely, and enough people also migrated to Lemmy at the same time that this is now a level of users and activity to hold my interest.
Same. The fediverse brought me here!
Created my account 3 years ago so I could still access one of the piracy subs in case they were banned from reddit, they used to have an alt community on lemmy.ml…
I came over properly during the reddit blackout, set up the communities I most wanted to see over here (that didn’t exist already), and have stayed ever since
I like the fact that the posts have (generally) sensible comments, without 1000 replies of inane drivel to sift through, overall it feels like a nice quiet corner of the internet where I can recognise usernames and have a brief chat, then be on my way
Definitely love that it feels like a nice quiet corner of the internet
Reddit. Came here in the API to exodus and never went back. I use my phone less too.
Mental Outlaw. I tried it and then started to like it. My oldest account is on lemmy.world, but I stopped using LW just so other instances can get some activity as well. LW is getting too big too fast.
yk true i was on the thelemmy.club instance aswell till i switched to lemm.ee cause thelemmy.club was small and i could not change my email (leaving gmail) and there was alot of those hexbears in thelemmy.club (not major reason) i also did not join lemmy.world bcs i didnt like the content there and it was slighty outdated
I came over in the API exodus. Lemmy lacks niche content, so I went back to Reddit. I stick around here because I’m so used to Sync.
Minutes before the reddit API pricing changes being announced, i started testing 3 party reddit apps because the official one was terrible
While testing, i found a post about the reddit changes but ignored it
I ended up using boost for reddit.
During the community strikes, i rarely opened reddit to check one of the subreddits about the protests
I found out about lemmy from the announcement of he creator of boost for reddit making boost for lemmy
I heard more and more about it in the time between reddit announcing their API changes and the actual last day RIF was usable unmodded. Then RIF suggested lemmy.world, but so many people were signing up that the page wouldn’t load right, and I went in search of another instance. I signed up with both slrpnk.net and midwest.social and have been here ever since.
When it was a bit too much with all the enshittification and bots on Reddit, I wanted alternatives. Lemmy was a suggestion, and I’ve had a good experience thus far.
